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conceive as in:  conceive the idea

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  • She couldn’t conceive why he acted that way.
    conceive = understand
  • I was then given a battery of increasingly difficult aptitude tests intended to measure my knowledge and abilities in every area that might conceivably be of use to my new employer.   (source)
    conceivably = possibly
  • We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence.   (source)
    conceive = even begin to understand
  • Only one of you had the brains to realize that in null gravity directions are whatever you conceive them to be.   (source)
    conceive = imagine
  • "I can't conceive of a man who'd—"   (source)
  • "Unthinkable! Inconceivable! Absurd! He could never be made into marshmallows!"   (source)
    inconceivable = so totally unlikely it is hard to imagine it could be so
  • And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room.   (source)
    conceived = originated the idea of
  • Geir might conceivably have some responsibility for this last member of the house it had taken over.†   (source)
    conceivably = believable or understandable
  • Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows.   (source)
    conceived = imagined
  • They try to stagger them throughout the day so a person could conceivably watch the whole thing live, but only people in the Capitol could really do that, since none of them have to attend reapings themselves.†   (source)
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  • The next few months were a blur of tests on Soraya: Basal body temperatures, blood tests for every conceivable hormone, urine tests, something called a "Cervical Mucus Test," ultrasounds, more blood tests, and more urine tests.†   (source)
  • In the past eighteen months, my mets have hardly grown, leaving me with lungs that suck at being lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely with the assistance of drizzled oxygen and daily Phalanxifor.†   (source)
  • As strong as the current was running, it would have certainly knocked him off his feet, but by dogpaddling and hopping along the bottom as he drifted downstream, he could conceivably have made it across before being carried into the gorge or succumbing to hypothermia.†   (source)
  • Within a few days of the crash, Louie began peppering the other two with questions on every conceivable subject.†   (source)
  • Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness — and promised answers — he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?†   (source)
  • Another life was inconceivable.†   (source)
  • Having initially struggled to get anyone of influence on the phone, in April the American began securing face-to-face meetings with senior bureaucrats in every conceivable branch of government.†   (source)
  • It was an objectively terrible opinion—my friends from the Marine Corps spanned the political spectrum and held nearly every conceivable opinion about the war.†   (source)
  • It was inconceivable that the Tsimtsum should sink without eliciting a peep of concern.†   (source)
  • We argued in court that, relative to that of adults, young teenage judgment is handicapped in nearly every conceivable way: Young adolescents lack life experience and background knowledge to inform their choices; they struggle to generate options and to imagine consequences; and, perhaps for good reason, they lack the necessary self-confidence to make reasoned judgments and stick by them.†   (source)
  • It is inconceivable that he would bring you into the inner circle.†   (source)
  • We've had teams run every conceivable scenario.†   (source)
  • There were meetings of every conceivable department—R&D, search, social, outreach, professional networking, philanthropic, ad sales, and with a plummeting of her stomach, Mae saw that she'd missed a meeting, deemed "pretty much mandatory" for all newbies.†   (source)
  • That would not be necessary, Dan Needham was sure; but that Owen was supported by such a boob as Mr. Early was conceivably worse than no defense at all.†   (source)
  • I glance back into the kitchen at the inconceivable mess I've made.†   (source)
  • Leper Lepellier is already seventeen, and if I'm not mistaken he will be draftable before the end of this next academic year, and so conceivably he ought to have been in the class ahead, he ought to have been a senior now, if you see what I mean, so that he would have been graduated and been all set to be drafted.†   (source)
  • After dinner she goes to their bedroom, from where she could conceivably hear me as I sneak along the hall, although I take care to be very quiet.†   (source)
  • Communicating the letter and its word, even spelling it out backward for him, was inconceivable.†   (source)
  • There was only one other rock up there that they might conceivably move; but that was half as big as a cottage, big as a car, a tank.†   (source)
  • She was even prepared to believe that Neil Armstrong might conceivably even be some absurd kind of name.†   (source)
  • Inconceivable.†   (source)
  • Several times too—drifting uneasily between dreaming and sleep— I sat up suddenly in bed at the sound of her voice speaking clearly in my head, remarks she might conceivably have made at some point but that I didn't actually remember, things like Throw me an apple, would you?†   (source)
  • I can imagine Mother dying someday, but Daddy's death seems inconceivable.†   (source)
  • Terman ran through every conceivable explanation.†   (source)
  • You should really see it.... Is it even remotely, conceivably possible he was sending me a message?†   (source)
  • In the old days, it was inconceivable she'd have let something like that happen without striking back.†   (source)
  • "Conceivably," Shirley said.†   (source)
  • It is almost inconceivable that the scattered seedship colony of four centuries ago could have supported a large enough congregation to warrant the presence of a bishop, much less a cathedral.†   (source)
  • Elodin did something that could, conceivably, be referred to as teaching, but for the most part he seemed more interested in confusing me than shedding any real light on the subject of naming.†   (source)
  • The idea was inconceivable to her.†   (source)
  • A man who is vulnerable, who has suffered in an inconceivable way.†   (source)
  • Dinosaurs and humans living together at the same time was simply inconceivable.†   (source)
  • It was inconceivable, to both of us.†   (source)
  • The pamphlet added, "In the construction of this great wheel, every conceivable danger has been calculated and provided for."†   (source)
  • THE FIRE RAGED WITH INCONCEIVABLE VIOLENCE AND IN ITS DESTRUCTIVE PROGRESS SWEPT AWAY ALL THE BUILDINGS BETWEEN BROAD STREET AND THE NORTH RIVER ... SEVERAL WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERISHED IN THE FIRE; THEIR SHRIEKS JOINED TO THE ROARING OF THE FLAMES, THE CRASH OF FALLING HOUSES, AND THE WIDESPREAD RUIN WHICH EVERYWHERE APPEARED, FORMED A SCENE OF HORROR GREAT BEYOND DESCRIPTION, AND WHICH WAS STILL HEIGHTENED BY THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT.†   (source)
  • I would look around at the bare little cell and wonder what conceivable victory could come from a place like this.†   (source)
  • When I open my door and look out, I see a thousand little plank-and-cardboard houses floating at every conceivable tilt on an endless ocean of dust.†   (source)
  • It is 'nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement,' as Hume expressed it.†   (source)
  • One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they'd weigh more than 50 million metric tons—an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing.†   (source)
  • I looked up at him again, wondering if he knew my thoughts, could actually read them, if such could conceivably be the extent of that power.†   (source)
  • It's conceivable you could recapture him and put him back, thus postponing Doomsday.†   (source)
  • It was inconceivable—and all too conceivable.†   (source)
  • To me it was inconceivable.†   (source)
  • This does not even take into account the occasional use of bathroom tissue for unpredictable/creative purposes such as applying/removing cosmetics, beverage-spill management, etc For this reason, rather than trying to package bathroom tissue in small onetransaction packets (as is done with premoistened towelettes, for example), which can be wasteful in some cases and limiting in other cases, it has been traditional to package this product in bulk distribution units whose size exceeds the maximum amount of squares that an individual could conceivably use in a single transaction (barring force majeure).†   (source)
  • It was useless for Nfvea to attempt to convince her that the wealth of mines lay in rocks, because to Rosa it was inconceivable that Esteban Trueba would spend years piling up boulders in the hope that by subjecting them to God only knew what wicked incinerating processes, they would eventually spit out a gram of gold.†   (source)
  • But it was not long before we began to hear of an outfit called al Qaeda in Iraq, a malicious terrorist group trying to cause mayhem at every conceivable opportunity, led by the deranged Jordanian killer Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (now deceased).†   (source)
  • For a full day they ask every conceivable kind of question.†   (source)
  • But when the letter revealed his true identity, his sinister past, his inconceivable powers of deception, he felt that something definitive and irrevocable had occurred in his life.†   (source)
  • By 11:00 that night they had gone over the series of murders and discussed the conceivable connections and the tiny details of similarity and difference so often that Blomkvist's head was spinning.†   (source)
  • It seemed inconceivable until Roran considered how he himself had changed in the past few weeks.†   (source)
  • These snakes don't know you find death inconceivable.†   (source)
  • A decade ago, the idea of an organic garden at the White House would have seemed inconceivable.†   (source)
  • What he didn't realize—what he couldn't see because it was almost inconceivable—was that the entire spleen had become a solid clot of blood.†   (source)
  • One by one, Ronnie watched them crawling past, thinking them so incredibly small that survival seemed almost inconceivable.†   (source)
  • The legend of our birth is this: identical twins born of a nun who died in childbirth, father unknown, possibly yet inconceivably Thomas Stone.†   (source)
  • And the radio, too-assuming that it was they who had stolen it, which was something Dewey still hesitated to do, for it appeared to him "ludicrously inconsistent" with the magnitude of the crime and the manifest cunning of the criminals, and "inconceivable" that these men had entered a house expecting to find a money-filled safe, and then, not finding it, had thought it expedient to slaughter the family for perhaps a few dollars and a small portable radio.†   (source)
  • It would be inconceivable.†   (source)
  • Since I'm better than you in every other conceivable way, it did stand to reason.†   (source)
  • Many regiments have been obliged to eat their provisions raw for want of firing to cook, and notwithstanding we have burned up all the fences and cut down all the trees for a mile around the camp, our suffering has been inconceivable....We have never been so weak as we shall be tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Public force is the life and soul of every state: not merely army and police but prisons, judges, tax collectors, every conceivable trick of coercive repression.†   (source)
  • That is, the drugs were too expensive for Haitians to buy for themselves in any conceivable future.†   (source)
  • It seemed inconceivable then that the war could last that long, for God was on his side, he had been told, and God, he had also been told, could do whatever He wanted to.†   (source)
  • The impact was inconceivable.†   (source)
  • Is there a philosophy of indifference conceivable?†   (source)
  • Such a sum was so unheard-of, so shocking, that it was inconceivable that a lowly black housekeeper should walk away with it.†   (source)
  • Five hundred Japanese families lived there then, and FBI deputies had been questioning everyone, ransacking houses for anything that could conceivably be used for signaling planes or ships or that indicated loyalty to the Emperor.†   (source)
  • Toby was perfect in every conceivable way.†   (source)
  • All I can think is that his ignorance was inconceivable to me.†   (source)
  • He flattered me in every conceivable way.†   (source)
  • If this single weapon could deal such a blow to his enemies, wasn't it conceivable that Allah would open man's mind to it through something as mystical as a dream?†   (source)
  • They were armed with guns of every conceivable size and design.†   (source)
  • He saw warily that his bodyguard, whose bulk had always been enough to ward off any conceivable danger, had an AK-47 in his hands.†   (source)
  • The amount of space was almost inconceivable, and Clarke suddenly felt light-headed, as if she were about to float away.†   (source)
  • "Ah, yes," he said, "they should be here now—yes, just about now—surrounding the building, covering every conceivable point of exit, including the roof.†   (source)
  • Even when his experimental work seemed dead-end in every conceivable way, he knew that if he just sat down and muddled about it long enough, sure enough, another hypothesis would come along.†   (source)
  • Your upper left cheekbone-your cheekbones are also pronounced, conceivably Slavic generations ago-has minute traces of a surgical scar.†   (source)
  • "Inconceivable," said Haldon Halfmaester.†   (source)
  • Drays, express wagons, trucks, and conveyances of every conceivable species and size crowded across in indiscriminate haste.†   (source)
  • Monterrey Industrial achieved the inconceivable.†   (source)
  • Mike was always showing unforeseen potentials; conceivable he could figure way to get around block—if he wanted to.†   (source)
  • A moan bubbles into my mouth, from I don't know where— some inconceivable place where pleasure and joy are one.†   (source)
  • After many years I had meticulously regurgitated the ten degrees of holy blessed sap, and mixed it in every conceivable formulation.†   (source)
  • For over a week every air crew at the base loaded jets with every conceivable piece of support equipment.†   (source)
  • Inconceivable, isn't it?†   (source)
  • I will see things as inconceivable to me today as a moon shot was to my grandfather when he was sixteen, or the Internet to my father when he was sixteen.†   (source)
  • Well, so, from day one, we've had the funds to try to keep track of all promising research in every discipline, worldwide, that could conceivably lead to the epiphany we expect.†   (source)
  • It is inconceivable.†   (source)
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conceive as in:  conceived their first child

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  • I conceived via artificial insemination.
    conceived = became pregnant
  • For the two of you, the choice was made when Ender was conceived.   (source)
    conceived = created (as an embryo)
  • O hateful Error, Melancholy's child!
    Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
    The things that are not? O Error, soon conceived,
    Thou never comest unto a happy birth,
    But kill'st the mother that engendered thee!   (source)
    conceived = created (figuratively by birth)
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  • I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are conceived the night of Big D's party.†   (source)
  • A poorly written sentence was a poorly conceived idea, and in his view the grammatical logic was as much in need of correction.†   (source)
  • "Never underrate
    the heart,
    Capable of deeds
    The mind cannot conceive.†   (source)
  • Personally, I think that was the moment he conceived the next body of work for his sketchbook.†   (source)
  • Whatever vague plan I had conceived regarding returning to my pond is wiped from my mind as I zigzag and dive and leap to avoid the fireballs.†   (source)
  • That Hassan would grow up illiterate like Ali and most Hazaras had been decided the minute he had been born, perhaps even the moment he had been conceived in Sanaubar's unwelcoming womb—after all, what use did a servant have for the written word?†   (source)
  • First of all, they are no longer called unwinding facilities, as they were when they were first conceived.†   (source)
  • What Everett Ruess was after was beauty, and he conceived beauty in pretty romantic terms.†   (source)
  • He could conceive of no other way to save himself.†   (source)
  • I suppose one cannot conceive of such devotion in man or animal until one has seen it with one's own eyes.†   (source)
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  • Almost as soon as we married, Luke had been conceived—an accident.†   (source)
  • He could not conceive of a better occasion.†   (source)
  • The doctors could find no explanation for our inability to conceive.†   (source)
  • They're worried, but they can't conceive of doing anything that will demand a sacrifice, so they pretend it isn't really so bad.†   (source)
  • My mind could hardly conceive it.†   (source)
  • We won her freedom after establishing that she had had a tubal ligation five years prior to her arrest, which made it biologically impossible for her to conceive, let alone give birth to, a child.†   (source)
  • They claim the Grail legend—that of a chalice—is actually an ingeniously conceived allegory.†   (source)
  • The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.†   (source)
  • My master conceived a plan, based upon the information Bertha had given him.†   (source)
  • Who could have conceived of it?†   (source)
  • He gave advice, cool, sensible, and unfailingly correct; he knew more than the graveyard folk did, for his nightly excursions into the world outside meant that he was able to describe a world that was current, not hundreds of years out of date; he was unflappable and dependable, had been there every night of Bod's life, so the idea of the little chapel without its only inhabitant was one that Bod found difficult to conceive of most of all, he made Bod feel safe.†   (source)
  • "I'm still quite a young woman, you know," she said finally, "though I realize that that's difficult for you children to conceive.†   (source)
  • Could she have conceived of the solution to a thousand-year-old problem?†   (source)
  • We conceived Hot Seat together and convinced the faculty to let us do it.†   (source)
  • She made good grades, conceived large ambitions, and went off as we had planned, no farmwife, or even a farmer, but something brighter and sharper and more promising.†   (source)
  • The last time Alex's body had taken over, had done what her mind told her not to do, she had conceived this baby.†   (source)
  • "She just conceived a child—like the Christ Child," said Mr. Meany.†   (source)
  • The Palaces had been conceived as humane options—refuges for the infected until they reached a point where the madness took over.†   (source)
  • Duff, conceived in impulse and error, had given her mother a chance to go to college and me the chance to break out of Flushing.†   (source)
  • I can't conceive of anyone low-down enough to do a thing like this, but I hope you found him.†   (source)
  • One theory is that they reverse-aged themselves to a time before even their souls had been conceived, which is why we call them hollowgast—because their hearts, their souls, are empty.†   (source)
  • Could it be that Lord Renly, who looked so like a young Robert, had conceived a passion for a girl he fancied to be a young Lyanna?†   (source)
  • And now when we were served chicken livers for dinner I couldn't help conceiving a mental picture of President Roosevelt and my father and Finny's father and numbers of other large old men sitting down to porterhouse steak in some elaborate but secluded men's secret society room.†   (source)
  • I brushed my hair ninety-nine times a night to bring luck to our marital bed, in hopes of conceiving a son.†   (source)
  • No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be so lucky as to conceive.†   (source)
  • If I ever get out of this lot ....They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh.†   (source)
  • That's what they call people who aren't born inside the nine months of the marriage, people conceived beyond the blanket.†   (source)
  • At the heart of it, unseen, lay a small gold box which carried within it the most brain-wrenching device ever conceived, a device that made this star-ship unique in the history of the Galaxy, a device after which the ship had been named—the Heart of Gold.†   (source)
  • It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without "sky."†   (source)
  • Alas, sorrow was conceived that day.†   (source)
  • In my case, though I didn't know how to write or paint, I had a great need to conceive and imagine, so compelling, so encompassing, I had to do it even when I knew my works would be subject to ridicule, would be called stupid and naive.†   (source)
  • He knows every person ever conceived, and he knows them so much deeper and clearer than you will ever know your own children.†   (source)
  • Sarai was twenty-seven when the child was conceived, Sol was twenty-nine.†   (source)
  • We had several sets of friends who had tried for months, years even, to conceive without luck and who had gradually taken their pitiful desperation public.†   (source)
  • It was as if I had just heard Jesus had slapped a baby or Our Blessed Mother had not conceived Him the immaculate conception way.†   (source)
  • Carter envisions a film production of A Midsummer Night's Dream more disastrously hilarious than anything the "rude mechanicals" of the original could conceive of, the results recalling the real-life all-male film version from the 1930s.†   (source)
  • He wanted a disheveled Beethoven lost in thought as he conceived the Ninth Symphony while walking through the woods, hands behind his back holding hat and cane.†   (source)
  • Later, the prophet Nathan came to David and said, basically, "Look, God knows what you did, and here are the consequences of your sin: the child that you and Bathsheba have conceived will not live.†   (source)
  • Amaat conceived of light, and conceiving of light also necessarily conceived of not-light, and light and darkness sprang forth.†   (source)
  • When I originally conceived the idea for The Alchemyst, I thought the hero would be Dr. John Dee.†   (source)
  • There had been skepticism that a mere woman would be able to conceive such an important building on her own.†   (source)
  • You MAY CONCEIVE HOW IT LOOK'D.†   (source)
  • And she conceived the idea of a soldiers' center.†   (source)
  • Of course, the idiot never told us of his plans, and he probably couldn't conceive our capability to see him with night vision.†   (source)
  • Even when they conceive their children, I think they're praying.†   (source)
  • He thought that Danny used the word quite sincerely, and Gary Benson as originally conceived had too, but as he had begun Act V, it had come more and more strongly to him that Gary was using the word satirically, outwardly straight-faced while the Gary Benson inside was mugging and leering at Denker.†   (source)
  • In the drawer of her bedside table were a half-full packet of birth control pills, last consumed three months ago, when she and her husband were still trying not to conceive, passports, checkbooks, receipts, coins, keys, a pair of handcuffs, and a few paper-wrapped sticks of unchewed chewing gum.†   (source)
  • So you cannot say the world is red even though you conceive it as being so.†   (source)
  • Afraid of fleeing alone, I would not conceive of risking it with Claudia.†   (source)
  • Or something else the police haven't yet conceived of?†   (source)
  • Conceived without sin.†   (source)
  • She was also worried about encouraging Kanue, Natnael, and Mandela to recruit new players, knowing that such a hastily conceived team faced the prospect of humiliation against a schedule of well-coached and well-prepared teams in their division.†   (source)
  • For weeks I pounded my mother with every possible argument my mind could conceive, trying to find some way to get her to make Daddy come back home.†   (source)
  • We cannot conceive that a piece of paper folded over 50 times could reach the sun.†   (source)
  • He couldn't conceive of the idea that maybe we'd just want to stay together and be happy with each other.†   (source)
  • He rejected her from his life, because he could not conceive of anything more contemptible than paying for love: he had never done it.†   (source)
  • Quite suddenly, the Baron's mind could conceive of nothing more beautiful than that utter emptiness of black.†   (source)
  • David thought how strange it was that he should be here, lying once again in this place where he'd been conceived and born and mostly raised, how strange that his own family should have disappeared so completely and that this girl, so young and tough and so clearly lost, should have tied him to the bed.†   (source)
  • He could conceive of no immediate use for it, but then you can never tell what you might need in the future.†   (source)
  • But not before Stephanie Rose was conceived, a star-hung night in Barbados.†   (source)
  • Nor could they possibly, at their most extended, have conceived of the people he, in the privacy of night, became: his mother's friends, or his mother —his mother as he conceived her to have been when she was young, his mother's friends as his mother was now; the heroines and heroes of the novels he read, and the movies he saw; or people he simply put together out of his fantasies and the available rags.†   (source)
  • Gene Johnson conceived the idea and gathered the equipment and found the money to pay for it.†   (source)
  • Because Mom conceived three months earlier than she should have.†   (source)
  • I drive slowly, lost in thoughts of Hunter, hopefully sleeping soundly; of the things that led up to having him; of what life would be like if he had never been conceived.†   (source)
  • Matron carried her through the rest of the psalm in Latin, serving as her voice box while Sister Mary Joseph Praise's lips moved: "....Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me ....Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow ...."†   (source)
  • And so in a damp, smoke-filled room, Brewster Place was conceived.†   (source)
  • Kenyon doubted it; he could not conceive of ever wanting to waste an hour on any girl that might be spent with guns, horses, tools, machinery, even a book.†   (source)
  • "Of course," Domingo interrupted, "the balance of the sword is wrong for you because every balance has been conceived of for five.†   (source)
  • He had lost the Mouse, an unforgivable thing, and all because he thought he had conceived a good plan for watching Lorena.†   (source)
  • They were anything but describable, having been conceived, manufactured, shipped, and sold in various states of thoughtlessness, greed, and indifference.†   (source)
  • People never seem to conceive that there might be no more than moderate repayal for great toil in a mine of any sort.†   (source)
  • And of course her voice was deep and slightly scratchy like every seductive villainess ever conceived by Hollywood.†   (source)
  • It is from this I conceived Kendra's continued involvement in the plot of the book, though in this case, her involvement is with the Beast himself.†   (source)
  • It's hard to conceive of such evil," I say, wrapping my arms around her.†   (source)
  • You cannot conceive what encouragement this immediately gave me.†   (source)
  • Farmer was learning about the great importance of water to public health, and he was conceiving a great fondness for technology in general, also scorn for "the Luddite trap."†   (source)
  • The most compelling new idea that Bratton brought to life stemmed from the broken window theory, which was conceived by the criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling.†   (source)
  • The colonel abandoned his project with remorse, for he had conceived it entirely on his own and had hoped to unveil it as a striking demonstration to everyone that he had no real need for Colonel Korn.†   (source)
  • With Mike, I went into a prison to write about the ill-conceived design plan that made it a house of glass, that allowed prison employees to be trapped, stabbed, raped.†   (source)
  • The Koran made it clear that although miraculously conceived, and a great prophet, Jesus was not the Son of God.†   (source)
  • It is hard to conceive of any relationship between two adults in America being less equal than that of prisoner and prison guard.†   (source)
  • He had always feared that Salander would end up in hot water sooner or later, but he could not conceive of her being mixed up in a double murder in Enskede—as the killer or in any other way.†   (source)
  • This baby, conceived in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, holds special significance.†   (source)
  • All that he saw was shapely, but the shapes seemed at once clear cut, as if they had been first conceived and drawn at the uncovering of his eyes, and ancient as if they had endured for ever.†   (source)
  • The most humiliating admission I could possibly even conceive of, plus the loss of my left hand, all in one day.†   (source)
  • Nemo and I built the device based on designs conceived by Leonardo Da Vinci, and my first journey 'out' was when I met Aven's mother, Weena.†   (source)
  • I had not conceived that the sickness already had undone so many.†   (source)
  • All those women deciding for themselves if and when they want to conceive, how many children they want.†   (source)
  • On his furlough in the booming citrus country, Harlon did some things that Belle and Ed and his friends would never have conceived.†   (source)
  • Without traveling through the Indus Gorge, one cannot conceive of its drama.†   (source)
  • Their absence was heartbreaking, as though Bob could not conceive why anyone would want to visit.†   (source)
  • You have a chance at greatness you cannot conceive.†   (source)
  • In 1920, the memorably named Philo T. Farnsworth conceived the cathode ray vacuum tube used in most all twentieth-century TV sets.†   (source)
  • How could they, when being conceived at the same time in the same womb had done nothing to bind us together?†   (source)
  • I had figured out long time ago that my mother must have been conceived under the brush arbor — and I blushed to think about that now.†   (source)
  • Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal.†   (source)
  • And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.†   (source)
  • There's also a place where the strategy was, conceived, where the decoy was created.†   (source)
  • It was not an ill-conceived plan, and I told Eddie he should smuggle out the suggestion to Oliver in Lusaka.†   (source)
  • She'd flown through thin clouds over a vastness almost impossible to conceive after the skyscrapers and traffic of Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • We could not house, feed, and train even a million new chums each year—and a million wasn't a drop on Terra; more babies than that were conceived every night.†   (source)
  • Celia half drags her son to her bed, the bed in which he was conceived, and for three days he sleeps wrapped in blankets and his father's frayed pajamas.†   (source)
  • 'The child was conceived out of wedlock,' he said, 'but the child's father was supposed to have been killed in the war.†   (source)
  • He dismissed the impression, because he could not conceive of it as possible.†   (source)
  • My interests have expanded from local conditions and needs to a world horizon, where peace on earth may be achieved when children are wanted before they are conceived.†   (source)
  • After this loss, I recommended she go to the local herbalist to procure herbs to help her conceive a son and enhance her husband's strength and frequency in his below-the-belt region.†   (source)
  • No one can undertake what he does tonight without the deepest protection the mind can conceive.†   (source)
  • None of them was conceived in love, and none entered the world through a woman's womb.†   (source)
  • Those five stores defined the outer limit of his ambition, the necessary end of what he could conceive for himself.†   (source)
  • Most of the events in the erotic literature of Asia, one suspects, must take place in the mountains, for sex is almost impossible in Colombo except in the early morning hours, and very few have been conceived during this month for the last hundred years.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: And I've told you a million times, baby ....I wouldn't conceive with anyone but you ....you know that, baby.†   (source)
  • He wanted to laugh at the station man who did not even know that his existence and the existence of all white people had been conceived by witchery.†   (source)
  • When we go back to Searcy, Arkansas, where the Harding campus is, my dad loves to point out where I was conceived, in a trailer between a meatpacking plant and a graveyard.†   (source)
  • WHAT YOU CAN CONCEIVE, YOU CAN ACHIEVE.†   (source)
  • It seemed to be the only singles institution not yet conceived of.†   (source)
  • Seymour and I thought it might be a good thing to hold back this light from you and Franny (at least as far as we were able), and all the many lower, more fashionable lighting effects—the arts, sciences, classics, languages—till you were both able at least to conceive of a state of being where the mind knows the source of all light.†   (source)
  • A tax system administered by the federal government was conceived.†   (source)
  • It is about whether we, as a people, as nations that were both conceived in liberty, will continue to cherish that concept.†   (source)
  • After Junior learned how a man could feel about his children, he had conceived a deep and permanent anger toward his father.†   (source)
  • A child conceived in an encounter fares no worse than a child born in wedlock ....so Kenny had said; but could one be sure?†   (source)
  • Somewhere, there was an operational mastermind, a man who had conceived the attack, recruited the operatives, and guided them skillfully to their target.†   (source)
  • It was in his class, which met on Monday evenings, that Stephen and his young followers decided there was a real spiritual world, so the first stage of the Farm was conceived.†   (source)
  • Very early I conceived a love for Joseph Addison which I have never lost.†   (source)
  • One can scarcely conceive the full horror of it unless one is a parent who takes a close look at his children and then asks himself how he would feel if a group of men should come to his door and tell him they had decided—for reasons of convenience to them—that his children's lives would henceforth be restricted, their world smaller, their educational opportunities less, their future mutilated.†   (source)
  • I find that rather difficult to conceive.†   (source)
  • I could not conceive that the place on Pierrepont Street actually corresponded to the number that she had given me.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND In other words, these folks were conceived and brought forth through the normal biological function known as sex.†   (source)
  • That some Elephants have not only written whole sentences, as Æilan ocularly testifieth, but have also spoken, as Oppianus delivereth, and Christophorus à Costa particularly relateth (although it sound like that of Achilles' Horse in Homer), we do not conceive impossible.†   (source)
  • Can you conceive of such misfortune!†   (source)
  • She thought Ted Stone was hot porridge, and that Ezra Bennington was conceived without original sin.†   (source)
  • They could not conceive of what was being done to their mother, but in his own way each was sure that it was something evil, to which she was submitting almost without a struggle, and by which she was deceived.†   (source)
  • He had been thinking about this trip for several months but it was for the most part in moral terms that he conceived it.†   (source)
  • Within its border of hedge, high like a wall, and visible only from the upstairs windows of the neighbors, this slanting, tangled garden, more and more overabundant and confusing, must have become so familiar to Mrs. Larkin that quite possibly by now she was unable to conceive of any other place.†   (source)
  • But, standing erect, his chin thrust forward, picturesque if not eccentric in his military cloak and pantherskin waistcoat (at times he appeared in a vast sombrero and Mexican blanket), Sam Houston, the "magnificent barbarian," made one of his rare speeches to a weary but attentive Senate: This is an eminently perilous measure; and do you expect me to remain here silent, or to shrink from the discharge of my duty in admonishing the South of what I conceive the results will be?†   (source)
  • — 10 Conceive of a camera with a lens distorted into wild astigmatism so that it can only photograph the same picture over and over—the scene that twisted it into shock.†   (source)
  • It was impossible to conceive of a man more like his mother.†   (source)
  • At his touch, Laila remembered the frenzy of that afternoon again when they'd conceived Aziza.†   (source)
  • How could we know that a human was able conceive a child with one of us—†   (source)
  • And recently ....he conceived of a way to do that.†   (source)
  • Ten million years, Earthman, can you conceive of that kind of time span?†   (source)
  • While at the other extreme: Can you conceive of a work greater in scope than War and Peace?†   (source)
  • As abruptly as they had conceived of this game, my cousins announced that the game was over.†   (source)
  • It was around that time that he conceived the idea of establishing an airmail service.†   (source)
  • It was of course highly unlikely that anyone would meet the mayor's freshly conceived criteria.†   (source)
  • We figured if we conceived anytime in the next year, the timing would be about right.†   (source)
  • If so, the baby was conceived out of wedlock.†   (source)
  • She conceived, carried, and gave birth to Renesmee while she was still human.†   (source)
  • But it is a mistake to think of Sesame Street as a project conceived in a flash of insight.†   (source)
  • I couldn't conceive of leaving it forever.†   (source)
  • I conceived out of instinct and not out of obedience.†   (source)
  • Coming into Salem now, Reverend Hale conceives of himself much as a young doctor on his first call.†   (source)
  • I had begun to conceive of what my education might cost me, and I had begun to resent it.†   (source)
  • We were both convinced conceiving was going to be no easy task.†   (source)
  • Conceived so, and carried by this newborn while she was still human.†   (source)
  • She could not have conceived of a more desolate cortege.†   (source)
  • And then I conceived of everything too clearly.†   (source)
  • And I'm not sure I could trust the person who conceived this plan," Kynes said.†   (source)
  • It was not the way she had conceived it.†   (source)
  • It was then that I conceived of my own egotism.†   (source)
  • Every degradation of the spirit that can be conceived.†   (source)
  • The lesson was perfectly conceived classical conditioning.†   (source)
  • It was a painting of Ruth—a child's painting, crudely conceived.†   (source)
  • The ultimate logic that Bourne conceived as a theory.†   (source)
  • There are illnesses a girl can have in childhood that leave her unable to conceive.†   (source)
  • Dany had only been conceived when Aegon and his sister were murdered.†   (source)
  • There was much rejoicing when they were conceived twelve years ago .†   (source)
  • Adam Smith was outdone and outdated; he could never have conceived of such a world.†   (source)
  • But was this hideous thing conceived, or was it created?†   (source)
  • This is the only true punishment I can conceive for him.†   (source)
  • If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax."†   (source)
  • You were conceived just before your mother set forth upon her last mission.†   (source)
  • The trap was conceived that night, set that night.†   (source)
  • Conceived in mistrust, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created evil.†   (source)
  • The fury let loose was impossible to conceive, wrote a British midshipman.†   (source)
  • He owes no one, and he can't conceive of being owed something.†   (source)
  • No matter how ill-conceived and sexist that parade might be.†   (source)
  • She liked to think that was the night when Joffrey was conceived.†   (source)
  • It was Ian Redmond who conceived the interesting idea that Kitum Cave was carved by elephants.†   (source)
  • ....To bring you down to things you can't conceive-and to know that it's I who have done it.†   (source)
  • It was exhausting, for no matter what the scheme I conceived, there was one constant flaw-myself.†   (source)
  • She may be as I was, she may yet conceive.†   (source)
  • In any event, it was not many months later that my wife conceived, unexpectedly.†   (source)
  • This was how I conceived my story—unsugarcoated, though still with a happily ever after.†   (source)
  • How could we conceive of deep love, friendship, and everlasting commitment when we were only seven?†   (source)
  • "Brilliantly conceived," said Jason, remembering.†   (source)
  • there's that word "conceive" again, appropriate as ever!†   (source)
  • And it is this identity that modern, dualistically conceived technology lacks.†   (source)
  • All revolutions believe they are conceived in purity, the purity of the cause is everything.†   (source)
  • This was hardly the goal in the mind of the Chicago school officials who conceived the lottery.†   (source)
  • She has not borne in her first blooming, who can say she will conceive later?†   (source)
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